Posted on 09/12/2015 9:38:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bush’s poll numbers have dropped so low that it’s getting hard to call him a front runner with a straight face.
There are many, many reasons to abhor Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but there’s at least one reason to appreciate it, for now: his constant and merciless trolling of Jeb Bush that is currently tanking Bush’s shot at the presidency. In some sense, Trump is doing democracy a service by helping ensure we will not have to suffer the embarrassment of having a third Bush family member as president within two decades.
Trump’s penchant for insulting anyone in his path is now well-known (and often deplorable and sexist), though most candidates usually have to deliberately poke the bear for Trump to engage in his usual charade. But just about every day, Trump will go after Jeb unprompted – whether on Twitter or at campaign events or in interviews with journalists – with a voracity virtually never seen in primary politics. Oftentimes it’s substantive and other times it’s not, but it’s almost always delightful to watch.
Trump will attack Jeb for his support for the Iraq War, but if Bush lightly criticizes George W Bush, Trump questions why he would throw his brother under the bus. Trump attacks Jeb for his record in Florida, rips him for his $1.3m “no show job” at Lehman Brothers after he left the governorship. He calls Jeb out for being “100% CONTROLLED” by his wealthy donors, and when a few donors recently left Jeb’s campaign, Trump made fun of him for that too.
But it’s repetition of his now infamous and nebulous phrase – that Bush is a “low-energy guy” who could not handle the rigors of the presidency – that has become a daily occurrence and clearly gotten under Bush’s skin....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“One good thing about Donald Trump’s campaign: it’s ruining Jeb Bush’s”
This is one of the main reasons why I say Go Trump Go!
Another reason is his demolition of the msm. So again, Go Trump Go.
Great article.
I’m still planning to vote for Cruz in March, but I would happily vote for Trump in November.
The RNC plan was to flood the field with amnesty candidates so that ¡Yeb! could be nominated with 20-25% like they did with McCain and Romney. The Cheap Labor Express has already paid them for an amnesty candidate.
Perry dropping out is one less, the rest fo the Cheap Labor Express candidates:
¡Yeb!
Grahamnesty
Kasich
NJFatBoy
Pataki
Huckster
Fiorina
Carson
Rubberio
Walker
Paul
Trump, Cruz, and Squirrel Hair from Louisiana are the only ones left?
Trump and Cruz, I should have put Jindal on the Cheap Labor Express list
Well I have certainly enjoyed watching The Donald give Bush a wedgie and take his lunch money. :-)
“High Yellow” - I had to look that up. Who knew about ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’!
I wonder if Christians will fall out the bottom of this realignment. I really cannot support a country with abortion and gay marriage. I would now discourage anyone to enlisting in the military.
Trump’s penchant for insulting anyone in his path is now well-known (and often deplorable and sexist)...[snip]...but it’s almost always delightful to watch.
Heh.
It’s Trump, Cruz or lose.
Good point. Carson is pulling from Bush it seems.
Bush’s campaign is not ruined until he fails to garner 87 outright majorities in the primaries which he will likely get no matter how low his polls are overall because he is the choice still in those states that will vote Democrat in the Election. Even should he fail to get those eight states, the RNC rules for the convention will turn out to be different from what has been publicized so far and Bush gets into the convention where he gets all the super delegates plus whatever he got in the primaries. Don’t count him out until he is not presented for nomination at the convention. I still expect him to win no matter what happens in the primaries and remember, Bush has not yet begun to spend on negative advertising. Trump is probably the only one with some immunity to that.
Si’ I am Yeb from Mexico. I have come to speak the Spanish to all of the Americans. Do not worry about me as I will shoot myself in the foot soon. All my money comes from rich Mexicans that sell dope and take our jobs. Trust me if I win, things will be even worse than now. I most go do hat dance now!
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